Jessica Pegula is American tennis player, born in New York state in 1994.
📜 Jessica Pegula History
Pegula is the daughter of Terrence and Kim Pegula, the co-owners of the Buffalo Bills NFL team. She began playing tennis at the age of 7.
After a couple of years on the ITF circuit, Pegula made her WTA-level main draw singles debut in 2012, at the BNP Paribas Open (Indian Wells). Despite breaking onto the WTA tour, Pegula continued to hone her skills at ITF tournaments, as well as appearing at WTA events. In 2018, the American reached her first WTA singles final, in Quebec, and by the beginning of 2019 she was ranked inside the top-100. In August 2019, Pegula won her first WTA singles title, at the Citi Open.
Since then, Pegula's ranking has risen steadily, and she reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal in 2021, at the Australian Open. She equalled this achievement at the 2022 tournament, and, a couple of weeks later, broke into the WTA top-15 for the first time. In 2023 she reached the semifinals of both the Australian Open and Roland-Garros. She has won 2 WTA 1000 tournaments to date: the 2022 Guadalajara Open and the 2023 National Bank Open.
Jessica Pegula usually opts to play at the baseline; she often plays flat, aggressive groundstrokes, pushing her opponents further back or into the corners over the course of a rally, before dispatching a winner. Her down-the-line backhand is a noted weapon.
